Biography
Khaldun Bshara is a conservation architect and anthropologist. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering from Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine (1996), and his master’s degree in Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (2000). He has doctoral (2012) and master’s degrees (2009) in anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is currently the Co-Director of RIWAQ Centre, Ramallah, where he has been working since 1994. Bshara is Editor of Riwaq’s Monograph Series on the Architectural History of Palestine (2010-present), and the author and co-author of a number of books and articles published by RIWAQ including Tashgheel: Riwaq’s Job Creation through Conservation 2001-2011 (2011), Riwaq’s Guidelines for Restoration and Maintenance of Historic Buildings in Palestine (2005), and Ramallah, History and Architecture (2002).